Quote Originally Posted by RunawayPrisoner View Post
It booted right up at 3.16GHz like a E8500. Hassle-free. If you have a motherboard that supports 1333MHz FSB but has FSB strap at 333MHz, then this mod is recommended. It forces the board to go at 333MHz strap originally, giving you room to go much higher than the normal 266MHz or 200MHz straps.

Originally, I could only go from 266 to 333. Now I'm at 3.80GHz, evidently.
what do you mean by FSB strap? i have a GA-73VM-S2, which is almost the same mobo. the difference is that it doesn't have the DVI and lower onboard sound quality, but in terms of OC'ing ability, it's the same BIOS. by FSB strap, do you mean the BIOS only lets you OC be incriments of 200, 266, and 333mhz fsb options? this isnt the case for my mobo, as it let's you adjust in increments of 1mhz from 100-600mzh.

a little off topic but same subject. right now, the mobo is OC'ing an e2180 with just a slight boost on the vcore giving me 9*333mhz. so if i also did this BSEL mod like on an e7200, it'll give me a 1333fsb with no increase in vcore? since you have the same mobo, maybe you could help :]